All Entries Tagged With: "young business magazine"
How to Have Fun and Be an Example of Success
My name is Kate Raidt. I am a lifestyle design junkie. Here is my story.
In 1992 I was a broke, miserable college student at Baylor University. I went door-to-door in my dormitory asking people for coins to use “for laundry” when I was actually buying food from the vending machines [...]
No Education Required: 8 Billionaire Dropouts
Kirk Kerkorian
The father of the “megaresort” this high school dropout shaped Las Vegas to the destination it is today. Buying 80 acres on the strip for a measly $960,000, with vision like this no wonder he is a billionaire. Kerkorian later opened the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel. Kerkorian was married to professional tennis player [...]
Bring Your Own Dial Tone: Small Powerful Networks
The following is excerpted from Trust Agents: Using The Web To Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
Jeff Pulver knows a thing or two about dial tone. A while back, he cofounded Vonage, the voice-over-IP telephone network that took on all the major telephone companies in the late 1990s. [...]
Get Known Before your Book Deal
Author of Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform & Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform (Writer’s Digest Books). She started her [...]
The Secrets to Finding Women as an Entrepreneur
We all have our needs. Entrepreneurs are no different but don’t always have the luxury of the office happy hour or meeting someone through a co-worker. Moving home and bootstrapping a business can put a nix in the social life. Especially for many young entrepreneurs who leave the always promising college scene. However entrepreneurs by [...]
How to Motivate Gen Y
How Effective is Your Sales Rewards and Incentives Program? You May be Surprised…
by: Dr. David Brookmire
Today, an unprecedented three generations—with distinct work styles and preferences, values, expectations, needs, behaviors, beliefs, and goals—are in the workplace. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Sales, where the latest generation, Gen Y, will [...]
Laying the Foundation for a Solid Partnership
The other night my wife and I took the opportunity to get out and have a meal together at an Indian restaurant. Turns out the owner is an old friend of mine. We got catching up and before long our conversation turned to his partnership troubles. He’s had three partners in the three years the [...]
Building Your Dream Office as a Young CEO
Young entrepreneurs sometimes don’t like the idea of having an actual office. It starts to create the feeling of why they avoided the corporate world in the first place. But if done correctly an office can be a home away from home for entrepreneurs. Remember there are no rules here and you can create it [...]
Don’t Sell Your Soul to Corporate America
Once upon a time, people would line up to sell their souls to big corporations like General Motors and IBM. Of course they did! The corporations were paying a good price: nice salary, prestige, lifetime employment, secretaries to do the typing, decent hours, company pension, not a bad gig at all. I’m sure that the [...]
Knowing All the Right People
By Jennifer Kushell, co-founder YSN.com “Your Success Network”
This may sound a bit trite, and it’s certainly cliché, but if your goal is to build a business that’s not only successful, but powerful and impactful, it seriously helps to know the right people.
At the helm of your company, your ability to make [...]
9 Kick Ass Red Bull Events
How I miss those late college nights downing Red Bulls while trying to finish up that paper that was due 1st thing in the morning. Or maybe its those late nights yelling at the bartender for another round of jager bombs. How about waking up at the crack of dawn for a sporting event or [...]
Entrepreneur Survival Tips
As an entrepreneur, if you want to ’survive’ and make it off the ‘island’, then you must succeed. Failure is not an option, yet it is the most common result. In what can be called odd, so many people choose to play this game of ‘entrepreneurship’ even though they are fully aware that odds are [...]
Personal Branding By A Professional Wrestler
The Best Business Lessons I Learned Came From Men In Spandex:
Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional wrestler. I know a lot of kids say that when they are little but eventually they grow out of it – but not me. The summer before my senior year of college (Univ. of Maryland [...]
22 Little Known Ways to Make a Name for Yourself
If you don’t make a name for yourself, someone will make one for you. And it might not be the one you want. Who’s making a name for YOU?
Consider these twenty-two little known ways to do so:
Grow the trust. Oprah is the most trusted person in America. She’s also a billionaire. [...]
Sunday Book Review: The Future of Work
Traditionally, power has been held by those at the top and delegated down to those who hold less and less influence. In The Future of Work, Thomas Malone shows how, now more than ever, organizations are breaking down these traditional hierarchies to form new power structures. These new organizations are guided by group insight and [...]
Melissa Cherry Dreaming Big: 15 in 15
At the age of 22 I started Executive VA Solutions, because I was passionate about helping businesses. As an entrepreneur you have to work hard, believe in your vision, and share your experiences with the world. In order to live the dream, you have to visualize your goals, create an action plan, and be driven [...]
